The essence of the report: many Fortune 100 companies expected to drop their health insurance plans and, instead, pay the $2,000 per employee ObamaCare “penalty”.

First, the facts:

The House Ways and Means Committee asked for and received, on a confidential basis, information on the cost and coverage of the health insurance plans for the Fortune 100 companies.

In total, the Committee received information from 71 Fortune 100 companies.

In total, the 71 Fortune 100 companies that responded to this inquiry could save an estimated $28.6 billion in 2014 alone by eliminating health insurance coverage for their more than 5.9 million U.S. employees (impacting more than 10.2 million employees and dependents covered by those plans) and instead paying the $2,000 per full-time employee fine created in the Democrats’ health care law.

From 2014 through 2023, these employers could save an astounding $422.4 billion if they took this action.

Most (all ?) of the cable and radio pundits were calling big company plans to be an unintended consequence of ObamaCare.

I beg to differ. I think it’s completely intended.

Thank about it: Team Obama often said that they wanted a “single payer system”.